Her face remained calm, except for a small worry line above
her eyes when I described the amount of weaponry Johnny had at his disposal and the fortifications he had arranged around himself.
The fortifications that were set up protected the people during the battle.
Jubilation
18
She had shared my jubilation over his reappearance...
There was jubilation when their daughter was found alive and well.
Intuitively
23
Farmers know intuitively when when the pitch and rhythm of things moves beyond the predictable and the usual.
She seemed to have a intuitive knowledge of what I was going to do next.
Mincingly
26
She came forward almost mincingly and extended a thin, pale hand that trembled slightly and earned her the sympathy of all the women in the background.
They drove mincingly over the icy road.
Languid
27
...leaving those crystal-clear eyes as languid, placid as troutless ponds.
He was in a languid mood when he was told to do the chores he hated most.
Devotedly
17
..and then casually, gently and devotedly, reached inside me and opened me up.
He served his master devotedly and earned his respect.
Ordained
17
We graduated together and were married the summer we became ordained.
He was ordained to be pastor of the Waldheim church.
Inherent
33
...my mother explained to me the virtue inherent in simple dress.
The doctor spoke in an inherent manner when he explained to his patient what he found.
Neolithic
40
For me, baseball was extraneous effort I'd have sooner applied my studies, and for John, it was neolithic goonery.
Her clothes were so neolithic it was almost insane. The other girls were saying things like. "get with it girl".
Escapades
57
...while he recounted embarrassing excapades of their younger days.
Their escapades got them in trouble with the police the next day.
Reminiscences
62
Johnny and I laughed at their reminiscences.
His reminiscences had all the people laughing at the craziness of it all.
Ineptness
71
Together we traveled the distance between ineptness and proficiency.
Nobody wanted him to help because he was a very inept person.
Pantomime
71
Despite all the hours of pantomime in frount of my mirror, we still haden't actually hit a ball.
The kids all had to chose a person they liked and try to be like them by pantomime.
Incentive
80
"Incentive it's like encouragement", he said.
Her manager offered her an incentive a free trip because she was one of his best clients.
belittled
131
He and his brothers moved around their city and their school as outsiders, unaccepted and belittled.
She left a bilittled comment on his webpage.
presbyterian
132
He became a regular at at that chruch, Knox presbyterian.
The presbyterian chruch is a family of Christian denominations within the Reformed branch of Protestant Western Christianity.
Militaristic
189
"No," I said. "Far to militaristic for me."
The new government of Cuba is very militaristic.
Angst
194
No deep seated angst for the white man?
Jenny's angst increased greatly when Megaen loaded her with homework. :)
Resonant
195
...a pure resonant thrum of power everywhere.
The resonance of the preachers voice carried over the whole congregation.
Amiably
195
We'd chat amiably on the drive to the farm about school, that suncay's text, life and farming.
She talked to the man in an amiable manner.
Catalyst
195
The challenge of high school was my catalyst and I responded with high averages...
The catalyst for our car wash was the Save the Children campaign.
Mongrelized
201
He mongrelized us, lessened us, defined us by his bleary-eyed vision of the world.
Our dog was a mongrelized version of a golden retreaver.
Benevolence
203
...its obvious benevolence coaxed me into stepping out to join them.
Megaen went on the Walk for Charity in a benevolent manner.
Disenfranchised
240
"Exactly". your desenfranchised.
His right to vote was disenfranchised.
coup
286
But it's still possible to count coup these days.
They staged a coup to overthrow the government.
detonator
287
The knapsack. The detonator.
The detonator was set off before the bombs to warn the people.
solidarity
287
...Warriors that the idea of one crazy waving guns and planting bombs in solidarity isn't so big a stretch."
We stood together in solidarity with the soldiers hating the evil of wars.
Euphemism
288
Euphemism is as strong a weapon as bullets and steel, you know.
She used euphemism instead of using bad words to describe the condition of the house after the party.
Farce
288
Can't you see the farce in that?
The meeting was a complete farce.
Phantasmagoria
298
...deeper and darker colors in a phantasmagoria of loyalties and associations.
The drug addict experienced phantasmagoria when he was high.
Farcical
299
Their was indeed a a farcical quality to the history of this land...
The wild farcical of the clown with green hair had the children laughing.
her eyes when I described the amount of weaponry Johnny had at his disposal and the fortifications he had arranged around himself.